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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
3
Poem reflects on women who grieve for lost partners yet bear quiet strength. Childless caregivers find solace in subtler loves and good deeds. Society downgrades their maiden guise, but in faith they endure with tenderness, named faithful-hearted in God’s book. Richard Burton, Century.
In the tidy married quarters a harsh memory of loneliness softens as Mrs Hawkins, initially wary of neighbors, tends an orphaned child and helps wash a muddy youth. The act blooms into daily care, opening her home and bringing shared chores, lessons, and a sense of family.
A London Old Bailey sentence highlights Frederick Murray Sylvester’s flashpoint career as a yacht thief. Beginning as a 15 year old pirate on the Greenwich river, he repeatedly stole boats to hide loot, escaped Dartmoor, and wove a string of maritime crimes with accomplices before final capture after a race toward the continent.
A brief note recounts a Ceylon tale of the cobra using a gleaming green stone to lure prey, a temple legend about a cobra’s glow, and a clever outsider who retrieves the gem after a nocturnal cleansing ritual. Also includes comic quips from London theatre and a witty exchange about box seats.
The long deadlock for the U S Senate ends with William J Griner of Chicago elected by joint assembly after months of voting. The process began January 20 with Hopkins leading and featured attempts by Frank O Lowden and others to break the tie. Lorimer gains momentum in May while Democrats and Republicans shift support. Griner wins amid a complex party dynamic in Springfield.
In the London Christian World excerpt Mrs Hawkins endures a busy day as Pinafores and frocks fill the kitchen while children swarm the doorway. A crisis comes when she chooses to ignore messes until night and when Mrs Smith returns, bringing Jimmy home with excitement and concern for his tired sleep.
The world's largest dry goods combine is launched in New York with capital of about 1.0 million, vastly larger than the Associated Merchants Company. John Claflin leads the new United Dry Goods Companies of New York, with two directors from New York and Delaware and potential to absorb the Associated Merchants' vast business.
Hawthorne Nevada with 1500 residents, once county seat, celebrates laying the cornerstone of its first Christian church a Methodist house in a town that previously had only a Chinese joss house. The mining district town prospered but lacked a church until now.
Payments through banks show lower defaults and a healthier outlook as tariffs loom. Activity rises in heavy materials, factory goods, textiles, and clothing with extended lead times in iron, wood, and leather work. Prices firm and inquiries for furnace outputs grow while warmth is needed for high weight apparel demand.
New York reports irregu lar weather with a modest improvement in staple crops and retail trade. Re order activity from rob bers and wholesalers is quiet while optimism grows for fall and winter sales. Cold wet conditions hinder New England and mid Atlantic business with slow recovery in the Pacific North West. Trade focus remains on future conditions and tariff uncertainty, with calendar week failure counts from Bradstreets.
A historic price table lists cattle hogs sheep and lambs with varying quotes from Cincinnati Buffalo and New York markets. Corn oats wheat and rye are shown with No 2 and mixed grades, including futures-like notes and freight details.
A seismic tremor was felt across Chicago and four states at 8 40 am Wednesday with reports from Springfield Milwaukee Burlington and towns in Illinois Wisconsin Michigan and Iowa. No serious damage reported though Joliet and Aurora noted effects the duration was about half a minute and no seismograph exists in Chicago for official measurement.
The President issues a proclamation opening about 800000 acres for settlement and home construction on western reservations. The act directs allotment and registration of land claims at Coeur d Alene and Spokane regions with steps to deliver titles and secure occupancy for settlers.
A string of fires causes heavy losses across New York and Brooklyn. The Star Baking Company plant on Thomas Street sustains about 100000 dollars in damage. A five story warehouse building at 433 to 537 Seventh Avenue suffers a 200000 dollar fire loss. In Illinois, a tragedy near Highland results in the death of Huth Mitchell at age 4 from an accidental revolver discharge by her brother aged 9. Hutchinson of Chicago is named president of the American Pedration of Arts at a Washington meeting. Frank W. Carpenter hosts a Georgetown banquet attended by fraternity members and guests.
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